July 2022 Release Notes

Invoicing & Payments 

Accounting Interface Summary list is now available in VIP in Financials -> Transactions menu section. Also, "Trans Status" and "Trans Type" columns containing internal values in the Report Designer table "Accounting Interface Summary" have been deprecated in favor of the columns with the same name - but containing user-friendly values.

Story EN-43528

Distances & Maps 

Corrected port country value and UN codes for ports found in Guernsey (formerly listed as Country = Channel Islands)

Story EN-43476

Distances & Maps 

New port Portland Blight (Jamaica)

Story EN-43446

Distances & Maps 

New routing port Barra Norte (Brazil)

Story EN-43442

Distances & Maps 

New port PAL - USWC (Unitd States)

Story EN-43427

Journals 

Previously, ROB_XXX lines could appear after TC out delivery when bunkers have not been set on consumption. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-43363

Distances & Maps 

New port Gustavsburg (Germany)

Story EN-43301

Distances & Maps 

Corrected time zone for Nipah Anchorage

Story EN-43287

Voyage P&L 

Previously, an erroneous 'Uncovered Hire' line could appear when index-linked hire rates are used alongside with another rate type. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-43190

Distances & Maps 

New port Shichirinagahama (Japan)

Story EN-43025

Distances & Maps 

Multiple new anchorage ports in the Solomon Islands added

Story EN-42945

Operations VIP Only

Fixed a link to wiki page describing expression editor examples.

Story EN-42925

Onboard 

in the onboard workspace, a timestamp appears, telling users when they last did replication

Story EN-42720

Chartering 

Added Sea Cons Mode/Port Cons Mode as a Voyage Estimate header-level field. These values will provide a default value for new port calls and give the user the ability to override all existing port calls with a new value.

Story EN-41445

Invoicing & Payments 

Previously, fully approved invoices could not be posted using Voyage Manager Invoices list's Review link. This has been fixed. In addition, tooltips have been added to the invoice review workspace in VIP to indicate a reason when a specific invoice action is not available.

Bug EN-40086

Fleet Map VIP Only

When filtering fleetmap vessels by ports, the ports selected will be highlighted by an anchor icon and the map will zoom in to show their location.

Story EN-42603

Journals 

Previously, the Counterparty and Ledger codes were incorrectly assigned for Bareboat Voyage Period Journal during journal creation. This issue has fixed.

Bug EN-43089

Operations VIP Only

Previously, switching to a next or previous voyage in Operations - Voyages might not show correct voyage data in Voyage Properties. The issue has been fixed.

Bug EN-42386

Fleet Map 

Users will now have access to a third detail tab 'Historical' for a selected vessel. This tab gives the option of choosing between seeing past itinerary lines for IMOS or AIS data.

Story EN-42978

Voyage P&L 

Offhire Reverse delay types can have an unattended value for TCI (expenses) and TCO (revenues) within its P&L. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-43515

Trading 

When a Time Charter In Min/Max contract in exposure with the Cargo realized and the Market Value Concept applied, the position for the TCI Min/Max is expected to show as a Short position. An issue in assigning the short/long designation resulted in the TC showing as Long. This issue has been fixed.

Bug EN-43071

Messaging Service 

The messaging service is now more reliable in the face of IMAP and POP3 timeouts.

Bug EN-42259

Onboard VIP & IMOS

If a user tries to approve a form out of order according to the VIP workflow , they will see the following warning message:
'There are already forms in this voyage awaiting approval. To prevent errors in the voyage data, review and approve all outstanding forms in order of "Effective Date" before approving this form'. The user can either choose to Approve the form anyway by clicking "Approve", or they can select "Cancel".

Story EN-42715

Analytics 

Previously, Reports which used the Voyage Leg Summary reporting table would sometimes have missing information. This is now fixed.

Bug EN-40114

Messaging Service 

n/a

Story EN-43463

Trade Hub 

The Star Rating column in the TradeHub Market Insights list view has been changed to Safety Score.

Story EN-43532

Trade Hub 

The Rightship/Rating field in the Tradehub Vessel Details panel has been renamed to "Safety Score."

Story EN-43473

Trading 

Previously, FFAs would not show as realized until the last working day of the FFA month had passed. With this change, FFAs will show as realized after the last day of the FFA period.

Bug EN-42117

Chartering 

The config "CFGDefaultEstLowSulfurOnly" has been added to allow users more control over the defaulting of the "LS Only" flag on estimates. When enabled, the "LS Only" flag state can inherit from previous voyages. When disabled, there will be no lookup, and the "LS Only" flag will be off by default. The config is enabled by default to perverse existing system behavior.

Bug EN-41823

Invoicing & Payments 

Previously, Off hire line items manually created on both sides of TC mirrored contracts would fail to link to corresponding Off hire delays. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-41812

Trade Hub 

An issue in which Rightship and environment ratings were not appearing in the Tradehub Vessel Details panel has been fixed.

Bug EN-43377

Operations 

The Use Booking Quantity On Scale Table checkboxes on the Cargo and COA forms have been updated from checkboxes to dropdown fields.

Story EN-42637

Distances & Maps 

When using the Voyage Manager map, fixed an issue where changing ECA/Piracy routing settings could cause routes to be displayed incorrectly for completed sea legs which contain ECA/Piracy-related passing points.

Bug EN-37064

Trade Hub 

An issue related to disabling the import of Q88 vessels in Tradehub has been fixed.

Bug EN-43317

Chartering 

An issue has been fixed that was related to updating estimates with PortLog when Custom Itinerary tabs are enabled.

Bug EN-43425

Distances & Maps 

An option to "View ECA Zones Over Land" has been added to the "Other" menu in the Veslink Distances, Estimator, and Voyage Manager map views.

Story EN-43206

Ops API 

Previously, an error occurred when using UpdateVoyage with a message that included Itineraries with externalRefs to complete a voyage which had a consecutive voyage after it. This is now fixed.

Bug EN-43191

Messaging Service 

In the cargo contract interface, fixed an issue where exceeding the maximum length for user-defined fields would result in message failure with an arbitrary error code. The error is now correctly logged with a consistent error code.

Bug EN-38634

Ops API 

Previously the publish-by-query endpoint would almost always fail with the error "A message with identical data and comment has already been published on object ". This has been resolved, and objects without changes that need to be published will now be ignored.

Bug EN-43364

Invoicing & Payments 

Previously, TC Commission payments did not always set the proper amount and copy amount to financial invoice when posted. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-43469

Invoicing & Payments 

Previously, users other than "admin" - but with Security Administrator privileges - were not able to save changes to financial control restrictions. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-43357

Invoicing & Payments 

Transaction Summary List would time out sometimes with Company and Line of Business columns enabled. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-43133

Trade Hub VIP Only

Tradehub Market Insights map now has the ability to toggle vessel position clustering, when clustering is enabled the vessels on the map combine into an icon that shows the number of vessels within the area at certain zoom levels.

Story EN-42751

Invoicing & Payments 

New configuration flag has been added:

Name: CFGDefaultAccountingDateToFinalApprovalDate
Default: N
Hidden: False
Description: When enabled, defaults the accounting date to the invoice’s final approval date. Only effective if invoice approvals are in use, otherwise the accounting date will default to today. Enabling this flag will have no effect if CFGActNoDefaultAccountingDate or CFGActDefaultAccountingDateToInvoiceDate are enabled. Takes precedence over CFGPromptActDateInInvoiceBulkPosting.

Story EN-43148

Messaging Service 

When multiple grade support is enabled, and a cargo grade is defined in a cargo import/update, the grade is validated against the parent group.

Bug EN-43085

Invoicing & Payments 

Line item level amounts in base currency in the Time Charter commission payments were not calculated correctly in some instances. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-43072

Journals 

When running Voyage Period Journals on a consecutive voyage, the FX dates for Bareboat Miscellaneous items is using the voyage commence date of the second voyage as the FX Date. The expected FX Date for Bareboat Miscellaneous items is the date of the earliest uninvoiced period. This issue has been fixed.

Bug EN-43045

Distances & Maps 

Added routing from Barcleona to 3 ports within France which previously showed no possible route

Bug EN-43021

Invoicing & Payments 

Some cargo handling related fields in the relet freight invoice's notification XML did not show the right values. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-42946

Operations 

In the "Settings" tab of Voyage Templates, added a new option for Lock Voyage Itinerary ETA/ETD. If this is enabled on the template used by a voyage, planned port ETA/ETDs are fixed and will not automatically update based on other changes to the voyage itinerary. The projected speed to a port will automatically adjust based on the targeted ETA.

Story EN-41223

Analytics VIP Only

Corrected a bug in which certain Enumeration type Quick Filters were not working properly in Analytics.

Bug EN-40746

Veslink Voyage Reporting 

N/A

Story EN-43375

Invoicing & Payments 

AP/AR report had an inefficient underlying SQL query which was causing timeout issues. This underlying SQL query is now improved, and the AP/AR report is not timing out.

Bug EN-43346

Voyage P&L 

Previously, the offhire P&L item was being doubled in amount when it was also invoiced. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-43149

Messaging Service 

Selecting Interface Message logs again produces a contrasting highlight for visual clarity

Bug EN-43047

Chartering 

XSD, XSH, XPD, and XPH column names are now fully visible in the voyage estimate itinerary grid.

Story EN-42965

Trading 

Calculations to determine Market Result In and Market Result Out have been updated to include Misc Expenses, Revenues and Commissions for RELT and VCOV voyage types. These values are displayed when the setting, CFGEnableVoyageMarketValue, is enabled.

Story EN-42719

Trade Hub VIP Only

Resolved issue in which chart overlay couldn't be used alongside weather on the map.

Bug EN-42627

Trading 

Previously, a cargo's unpriced component rate was not being correctly reflected in the trade details list's exposure. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-41127

Operations 

Previously, some users saw an error that kept them from viewing the Forms list associated with a Voyage. Now, this issue is resolved.

Bug EN-43370

Invoicing & Payments 

Previously, some invoices could not be posted in the parent voyage after having been posted in the mirror voyage. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-43240

Onboard 

Added 'GMT' to gmt time errors for clarity.

Bug EN-42716

Chartering 

Added defaulting of EU ETS percentages in the Carbon Calculator based on whether or not the port is considered a part of the EEA.

Story EN-41257

Veslink Voyage Reporting 

Resolved an issue where error messages were sometimes not correctly displayed in Veslink forms, as well as an issue where there was a Script Error when opening forms embedded within IMOS Desktop

Bug EN-43350

Veslink Voyage Reporting VIP Only

Users now have the ability to select the source of a form (Offline, Online, API, Agent Portal, Onboard Office, Onboard Vessel, Onboard Agent Portal) in the columns available in the Veslink Forms list in VIP. This column is not selected by default. This data is not available for forms submitted prior to June 20th, so for these forms the column will appear blank.

Story EN-43057

Operations VIP Only

Fixed an issue where expanding side panels in Voyage Manager would discard edits made to the currently selected field.

Bug EN-41169

Invoicing & Payments 

When importing Freight Invoices from the PublishInvoice or <invoiceImport> APIs, it is now possible to supply the billed percentage (which will default to 100% if not specified). This rectifies the issue where the system would mistakenly prompt to create another Freight Invoice even after one was imported successfully.

Bug EN-40719

Veslink Voyage Reporting 

Users couldn't approve forms submitted by some active agents.

This functionality is now fixed and users can approve forms submitted by any active agents.

Bug EN-43291

Veslink Voyage Reporting 

Bugfixes and validation improvements related to ROBs in VVR forms.

Story EN-43146

Tasks & Alerts 

In the rule editor, allow editing expression-valued alerts without resetting the expression.

Story EN-41851

Bunker Management 

In Voyage Manager, fixed an issue where the average invoiced bunker price set on the voyage itinerary could be incorrect if the invoice includes lumpsum "other" costs for the given fuel type. Fixed a rare issue where a malformed bunker invoice saved without an invoice quantity but with a base purchase price could set an inaccurate price for the given bunker lot in the voyage bunker cost calculation.

Bug EN-43068

Distances & Maps 

Bohai Sea and Pearl River ECA zones now apply at sea in addition to in port

Story EN-43283

Voyage P&L 

Previously, when CFGUseTCInvoiceExchangeRateInVoyPNL was enabled and the Proj/Act delivery date for a TCI was before the Est delivery date, the Hire cost in the voyage P&L used an incorrect FX Rate. The change in this "gap" scenario is to use the FX Rate set on the TC Contract.

Bug EN-43026

Journals 

With CFGEnableMultiCurrencyTCContracts enabled, offhire bunkers within journals will be based on CFGBunkerCurrency entry instead of the contract's currency.

Story EN-42882

Journals 

Previously, bunker reconciliation lines were missing from accruals if the vessel was still in a port at the end of month after bunker lifting.
This issue has been fixed.

Story EN-42852

Operations 

Carbon Calculator calculations can now be applied to estimated Profit and Loss as an expense. By default, the Emission Expense is excluded but can be enabled via the Carbon Calculator form.

Story EN-42578

Trading 

Previously, split route information was missing from trading P&L snapshot.
This issue has been fixed.

Bug EN-42315

Onboard 

Resolved an issue where updating a submitted form with errors in Onboard resulted in the form being incorrectly reverted to status draft.

Additionally, drafts created within onboard no longer appear in the Voyage Manager Form lists within VIP and IMOS.

Bug EN-43236

Invoicing & Payments 

When use monthly hire rate, the hire statement's hire amount is calculated incorrectly. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-43122

Trade Hub VIP Only

Requests to PortLog now timeout after 180 seconds and display an error.

Story EN-42618

Veslink Voyage Reporting 

Users were having trouble approving Port Disbursement forms when an agent company with multiple types had one of them set as inactive.

With this fix, users are able to approve forms under the same circumstances as long as at least one of the instances of agent company is not set to inactive.

Bug EN-42448

Trading 

Previously, when a TC contract had multiple pricing rows including index-linked pricing and the trading profile sub-flag, "Use Corr/Adj From Index-Linked Contract", enabled, exposure days were double counted for the period when the pricing change started. This issue has been resolved.

Bug EN-41901

Trade Hub 

Fixed an error in Tradehub: Action Cargoes in which data was still being filtered when filters were hidden from the view.

Bug EN-42721

Trade Hub 

An issue in Tradehub related to the Grade and Status filters on Action Cargoes not working when their respective columns were hidden is now fixed.

Story EN-41609

Invoicing & Payments 

Previously, users other than "admin" - but with Security Administrator privileges - were not able to save changes to financial control restrictions. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-43156

Invoicing & Payments 

Previously user sometimes would not be able to post mirrored invoice. This issue has been fixed.

Bug EN-42919

Data Lake 

A bug in which User Defined Fields with blank prompts would cause Datalake extracts to fail has been fixed.

Bug EN-42742

Operations VIP Only

Fixes a bug where clicking on a submenu item would instead click the root item when a user moved their mouse in a certain way.

Bug EN-40682

Distances & Maps 

Some distance calculations have been corrected for point-to-point routes north of Crete.

Bug EN-40591